• Infidel66 (unregistered)

    $20 bills jammed into the slot (floppy) to purchase stuff on the internet.

    I think this is more of a WTF :) Anybody tried credit cards, I wonder?

  • paratus (unregistered) in reply to Maurits
    Maurits:
    savar:
    Law offices are notoriously technology-backwards.

    Which may be why you never hear of a law office losing years of customer data due to a server crash and inadequate backups.

    No, you only hear of them losing the only hard copy there is. they must have some kind of roaming black hole int he evidence locker for all that crap they lose.

  • Vollhorst (unregistered)

    Reminds me of a test where tailors and designers were supposed to use CAD to create their patterns. Everything worked fine, they did really well. But there was one small thing they had a hard time with understanding it: They selected a part, cut it out and pasted it to somewhere else. But why was it possible that they could paste it again? They just didn't get it that it was possible to duplicate items. It just wasn't realistic.

    As some persons have problems with directories in directories which just makes no sense in reality. Who puts a folder in a folder in a folder with ten folders in a folder?

  • (cs)

    Sounds like she loves him enough to pull a prank.

  • Francois (unregistered) in reply to Happy Programmer

    Tried to stick the envelope into the floppy drive !? You've got to be kidding me !

  • (cs) in reply to Global Warmer
    Global Warmer:
    I am a Star Trek Geek (surprise, suprise, a computer guy is a star trek geek) and lately I have been watching a lot of ST Voyager. I have noticed that, for people 400 years in the future that can travel at warp 9.975, that have transporters, replicators, and holo decks... They are constantly faced with the delema of losing the only copy of the Doctors program... They can figure out how to travel through time but not make a backup of a program.
    Actually they have a backup tape drive, but it takes two years to put in all the tapes to backup a program that big. And by that time there have been so many changes that it takes another two years to back those up by which time... well you get the idea.
  • bert (unregistered) in reply to Happy Programmer

    You are taking the piss! I believed you right up to the floppy drive part

  • An oppressed mass (unregistered) in reply to Happy Programmer

    We have a clever integrated email/crm/document system. The CEO wants to send a memo to everyone in the company - He types the memo - in the document system. Prints it out Faxes it to head office Their combined fax/scanner/photocopier/printer turns it into a 300dpi multi-Mb PDF. They email it (as an attachment not a link) to everyone in the company - several hundred people. The CRM package starts to archive all these emails. People reply aggreeing with the boss, including the attached PDF. CRM server disks melt....

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to nzruss
    Global Warmer:
    I am a Star Trek Geek (surprise, suprise, a computer guy is a star trek geek) and lately I have been watching a lot of ST Voyager. I have noticed that, for people 400 years in the future that can travel at warp 9.975, that have transporters, replicators, and holo decks... They are constantly faced with the delema of losing the only copy of the Doctors program... They can figure out how to travel through time but not make a backup of a program.

    And whenever they invent a new machine, the very first test is always on a surely-massively-expensive starship with hundreds of people on board, and/or they give it control of weapons capable of destroying a planet. And then when the machine doesn't work properly they're all shocked and in a panic. How can these people build starships and androids and time machines but it never occurs to them to test new inventions in a laboratory under controlled conditions BEFORE conducting a test where failure means that hundreds of people die?

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to Outlaw Programmer
    I worked as a "copy boy" at a law firm a few years ago and saw similar things
    This seems to be endemic to law firms. The problem is that lawyer time is expensive and office-serf time is free, so there's no need to try and optimise the workflow. More to the point, since each piece of pointless make-work is billable, there's a strong incentive to pessimise the workflow. I've seen lawyers print out docs and get assistants to retype them from scratch for no identifiable reason, every kind of variation you can imagine, and no-one (at least within the firm) thinks this is unusual.
  • Bob Holness (unregistered) in reply to Happy Programmer

    I have just set my mother up with internet access. I sent her an email from work so that she could mail me at work easily. "Just reply to this to contact me at work" I put.

    Later I get a phone call that she was unable to send the email. After five minutes getting her to retrace her steps it turned out she was trying to send an email to "114 Dalmation Road, London, WC2B 3MR".

    (Address changed.)

  • Flygirl (unregistered)

    This is priceless - thank you for making an otherwise dull morning entertaining.

  • mabinogi (unregistered) in reply to chrome
    chrome:
    WTF: http://www.bobstaake.com/copyno/warning.shtml

    TRWTF is that they say all that, and then don't even use referrer checking on the original image.

    I bet they've patented their copy protection "technology" too.

    I had no interest in copying that comic until I saw the obnoxious copyno image. If they were truly interested in helping people protect their copyrights, and not in making a quick buck, they'd give their script away - or open source it - in all it's irritating and ineffectual glory.

  • 1sheep (unregistered) in reply to Happy Programmer

    Oh, my god! I actually can't get myself to believe that. I am trying, but it broke my brain!

  • Hognoxious (unregistered) in reply to The Masked Director of Development
    The Masked Director of Development:
    He put the document in the fax, started to walk away, then shouted, "S***! I didn't make a copy first!" and ran back to yank the paper out of the fax rollers.
    I once asked a cow-orker for two copies of a document, because I needed to fax one to someone else. She happily complied, but I don't know how I kept a straight face.

    But there was no need fior that guy to panic, he could have just asked them to send it back once they'd finished with it.

  • Ampersand (unregistered)

    The thing that gets me is when someone types a message in Word, attaches it to an email and sends that to me. Especially when that something is code...

  • ... (unregistered) in reply to Happy Programmer

    Not to offend you or your mom,

    but that story just pissed me off.

    If I didn't know how to make double sided copies out of a single sided copy on a photocopier, I would never be able to live it down, people would laugh at me, work in shame for weeks, then finally give in to pressure and quit.

    If someone stamped an envelope, wrote an email address on it and put it in a floppy drive, and I laughed at them, I would be in trouble, for making fun of a co-worker, for not showing leadership and correcting the mistake, and people would bitch about it as long as I worked, then finally give in to pressure and quit.

    Tis not a funny story at all.

  • Chris (unregistered) in reply to Happy Programmer

    Doing a stint at Kinko's, I helped an older lady sending her first fax to a church in Africa.

    As the paper was disappearing into the fax machine, she asked "do they get the original?"

  • DIGITAL ABACUSS (unregistered)

    Returning from aweekend get away I confronted my mom as to why she let my 5 year old brother color on the monitor. Mom stated that my blond 17 year old sister was in fact highlighting some text.

  • Unregged or something or whatever. (unregistered) in reply to Happy Programmer
    Happy Programmer:
    I'll never forget the day my mom tried to send her first e-mail... She had printed out the Word document, put it in an envelope, written the e-mail address on the envelope and stamped it. The she put it in her floppy drive...

    We had a good laugh about that one :)

    CAPTCHA: bene

    Aww come on that never happened, seriously.

  • 🤷 (unregistered)

    At my old job, users recieved an email with an attachment on one e-mail address. Since they needed the attachment in a different e-mail-account they'd print out the pdf, scan it in and sent it to the "correct" mail address via the scanner. Instead of just forwarding the e-mail..

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